This video from the City of Vancouver will take you through Vancouver’s history from the arrival of the Coast Salish in 16,000 BC to 11,000 BC to the arrival of European explorers in the late 1700s to present-day Vancouver and the city’s current aspiration to the greenest city in the world by 2020.

Learn about Vancouver’s first saloon, the discovery of gold along the Fraser River, the great fire of 1886, Canadian Pacific Railway’s expansion of the trans-Canada railway system, race riots, the construction of Empire Stadium, Vancouver’s status as the “hippie capital of Canada” in the 1960s and 1970s, the celebrations during Expo 86 and Vancouver 2010, and much more!